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Americans for Prosperity has worked closely with the Tea Party since the movement’s inception. In the weeks before the first Tax Day protests, in April, 2009, Americans for Prosperity hosted a Web site offering supporters “Tea Party Talking Points.” The Arizona branch urged people to send tea bags to Obama; the Missouri branch urged members to sign up for “Taxpayer Tea Party Registration” and provided directions to nine protests. The group continues to stoke the rebellion. The North Carolina branch recently launched a “Tea Party Finder” Web site, advertised as “a hub for all the Tea Parties in North Carolina.”
Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a group fronting special interests started by oil billionaire David Koch and Richard Fink (a member of the board of directors of Koch Industries). AFP has been accused of funding astroturf operations but also has been fueling the "Tea Party" efforts. [1] AFP's messages are in sync with those of other groups funded by the Koch Family Foundations and the Koch's other special interest groups that work against progressive or Democratic initiatives and protections for workers and the environment.
Of the Republicans 47 of the 66 members of the House Tea Party Caucus also supported the bill.
Originally posted by RealSpoke
reply to post by Eurisko2012
The Tea Party is going to enlarge the government. You already had members voting for the NDAA and CISPA and to give tax money to the Koch brothers. A vote for the Tea Party is a vote for more tyranny and crony capitalism.
Of the Republicans 47 of the 66 members of the House Tea Party Caucus also supported the bill.
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Originally posted by Eurisko2012
Originally posted by RealSpoke
reply to post by Eurisko2012
The Tea Party is going to enlarge the government. You already had members voting for the NDAA and CISPA and to give tax money to the Koch brothers. A vote for the Tea Party is a vote for more tyranny and crony capitalism.
Of the Republicans 47 of the 66 members of the House Tea Party Caucus also supported the bill.
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en.wikipedia.org...
Our mission statement says otherwise.
- No More Government Gone Wild -
Originally posted by MrSpad
Originally posted by Eurisko2012
Originally posted by RealSpoke
reply to post by Eurisko2012
The Tea Party is going to enlarge the government. You already had members voting for the NDAA and CISPA and to give tax money to the Koch brothers. A vote for the Tea Party is a vote for more tyranny and crony capitalism.
Of the Republicans 47 of the 66 members of the House Tea Party Caucus also supported the bill.
freakoutnation.com...
www.govtrack.us...
en.wikipedia.org...
Our mission statement says otherwise.
- No More Government Gone Wild -
Then I guess nobody has bothered to read it. Or they use the Tea Party as tool to get elected and then do as they please because lets face it most people do not have a high opinion of the Tea Party. Frankly they have done far more harm to the GOP than help.
Originally posted by RealSpoke
reply to post by Eurisko2012
I don't care what the mission statement says. It is fantasy, talk is cheap. In all reality the Tea Party has done nothing but enlarge the government.
Originally posted by RealSpoke
reply to post by Eurisko2012
Obama has nothing to do with Tea Party members voting for the NDAA, CISPA, and giving tax money to corporations. They did that on their own free will. It's cool you make excuses for tyrannical corrupt parties though. It's also cool that you support big government parties when you're supposed to be against it. Talk about cognitive dissidence.edit on 2-8-2012 by RealSpoke because: (no reason given)
President Mitt Romney will lower the unemployment rate to 4%.
President Mitt Romney will bring these $$$ trillion deficits to an end.
Originally posted by RealSpoke
reply to post by Eurisko2012
I don't like Obama and you don't know my priorities. Why are you deflecting from the original argument? Because you don't know what to say? That you are loyal to a tyrannical big government party? So much that you will make excuses for their actions?
President Mitt Romney will lower the unemployment rate to 4%.
No, he really won't. He is a crony capitalist that helped the unemployment rate where it is by outsourcing. He wants to raise taxes on anyone that makes 200k or less, a lot of those are small business owners. Tax the middle class = less spending = less business revenue = less jobs.
President Mitt Romney will bring these $$$ trillion deficits to an end.
No, he really won't. He wants to raise military funding which is already the highest in the world.
I don't care what the mission statement says. It is fantasy, talk is cheap. In all reality the Tea Party has done nothing but enlarge the government.
Originally posted by jtma508
reply to post by Eurisko2012
You are deluded. Since Mittens can't, tell me EXACTLY how he is going to bring unemployment down to 4% in light of the global economic situation. It's cheap poltical BS. I'm no fan of Obama but at 60yo I've heard and seen alot. Republicans were going to fix everything when they got the House majority and they havn't done jack. Republican, Democrat it doesn't matter one bit. The only thing that is determined is WHOSE friends get to saddle-up to the trough. Believing that EITHER party gives a rats-butt about this country is sadly laughable. Don't be a maroon. Open your eyes. The ONLY people who benefit from either party is the elite. We get wholly screwed either way. The ONLY viable answer is to force every one of them out. Throw a spanner into the political machine.
I hope Romney does get elected. Because in the short time left afterwards I plan to rub the faces of a select group of pathetic sheep into the crap that's created. People like you --- on both sides --- are exactly why the situation is hopeless. On the one hand you had 'Hope and Change' empty promises. Now you have Mittens and his 4% unemployment and detail-devoid economic plan. It's just 'trust me I know what I'm doing' all over again. Don't be a fool. We already have too many as it is.
Originally posted by LDragonFire
reply to post by Eurisko2012
Four more years, Obama has many ways of winning Romney not so much.
The tea party will beat other republicans but will lose to democrats.
The republicans economic plans have never helped America, wishing for a different result while doing the same thing doesn't make since.
Lawsuits are already in place to fight the voter suppression laws the tea party and republican states governments have enacted. Both of these groups are spending a ton of money to influence voters if there voter suppression tactics don't work.
Four more years
Yes, he really will. -- We do not have a choice. --
We have to put Americans back to work. The current labor participation rate is a disgrace.
The USA is a military superpower. That will never change.